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Not like our common sense could not have figured this out but
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070211/hl_afp/healthscienceeducation_070211183635
"lack of sleep appears to disrupt functioning of the hippocampus, an area of the brain that formulates new memories."
"These results demonstrate that an absence of prior sleep substantially compromises the neural and behavioural capacity for committing new experiences to memory," says the paper.
"It therefore appears that sleep before learning is critical in preparing the human brain for next-day memory formation -- a worrying finding considering society's increasing erosion of sleep time."
I wonder why residency programs choose to maintain the opposite is the case.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070211/hl_afp/healthscienceeducation_070211183635
"lack of sleep appears to disrupt functioning of the hippocampus, an area of the brain that formulates new memories."
"These results demonstrate that an absence of prior sleep substantially compromises the neural and behavioural capacity for committing new experiences to memory," says the paper.
"It therefore appears that sleep before learning is critical in preparing the human brain for next-day memory formation -- a worrying finding considering society's increasing erosion of sleep time."
I wonder why residency programs choose to maintain the opposite is the case.